Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Embrace Education in Totality, Anambra Monarch Charges Youths

The
Traditional Ruler of Nawgu, Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State, His
Royal Highness Igwe G.E. Okaa-Onwuogu (Igwe Orachili na Nawgu) has charged youths
to embrace education while they were young as it opens the door for greater opportunities.

According
to Igwe Okaa-Onwuogu, formal and non formal education was indeed the bedrock of
every society because it empowers its beholders to decisively strive for
realization of their dreams, even as it informed the uninformed in the society.

Speaking
to news48hour.com at his palace, the Nawgu monarch, who retired in 2008 as Deputy Director
from Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board (ASUBEB), explained that it
was to that effect he introduced into his community, adult and non-formal education
(for primary and secondary school) which has given rise to higher number of
literates among them, even as he resuscitated their existing conventional
schools since 2014 he was crowned.

While
adding that his passion for education attracted one of their illustrious sons,
Tony Nneemego Foundation to initiate educational scholarship to their deserving
populace, Igwe Orachili enjoined students to face their studies squarely, and
his subjects to invest in agriculture like cassava and garri farming, which he
said his community is renowned for due to its arable soil.

On
what delayed his certificate of recognition as Igwe till last two week, the
monarch revealed that the then Chairman of his council whose duty it was to
officially present him to the state after he was duly elected and crowned,
refused insisting that someone else had interest on the throne, thereby
prompting his subjects to drew the attention of the state government to their
aid; and it came and conducted series of investigation whose outcome favours
him.

The
successor of Late Igwe Gabriel Nwegwu (who passed on in 2006), however,
disclosed that the certificate never deterred him from playing key roles as
traditional ruler as his feats so far include making Nawgu the most peaceful in
Dunukofia LGA, reorganizing their age grade groups and other vital communal
organisations for unanimous development of Nawgu, who were banned while Prophet
Edwin Okeke (Eddy Nawgu) was killed by defunct Bakassi boys, and representation of Anambra Traditional
Rulers Council at Abuja in 2016 Budget and Internally Generated Revenue
(IGR),etc.